Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi

Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi was an American Islamic activist and fundraiser for several Muslim charity groups who was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2004 for plotting to assassinate the future King Abdullah I of Saudi Arabia.

Biography
Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi was born in Eritrea to a Muslim family, and he moved to Yemen before his final 1979 move to the United States. In 1996, he became a US citizen while living in Falls Church, Virginia, and he became a Muslim activist. al-Amoudi met with Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to bolster Muslim political prominence, being one of the most well-known Muslim activists in the country. He also founded the Islamic Center of Boston, and the society's Cambridge, Massachusetts mosque was frequented by terrorists Dzokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Tarek Mehanna, and Aafia Siddiqui. al-Amoudi did not keep his terrorist links secret, as he openly said that he worked with Hamas leader Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook, and an intercepted phone call from him discovered that he was sad that the 1998 US embassy bombings did not kill any Americans and suggesting that more attacks like the 1994 Jewish cultural center bombing in Argentina should be carried out. In 2003, he was indicted for a conspiracy to murder the future King Abdullah I of Saudi Arabia while being financed by Muammar Gaddafi and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, and in October 2004 he was sentenced to 23 years in prison after confessing to his plotting.